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mGBA, Mupen64Plus, Cemu, Cxbx-Reloaded, and Phoenix are added. Next is Genesis GX Plus and DEmul, but both of them have extremely vague requirements.
===Overclocking===
Not all CPUs can be overclocked, and the motherboard's BIOS must be additionally capable of supporting overclocking. The CPUs in particular that can be overclocked are the usually the ones that are labeled: OverDrive, FX, Extreme Edition, Black Edition, K, and X. Also, certain engineering or qualification sample CPUs that AMD or Intel has manufacturered may also be overclockable, since they were used for testing purposes and were not meant for sale. If you are not sure what kind of a CPU you have, check if it has these overclocking labels. For Intel CPUs, their overclocking labels are OverDrive, Extreme Edition, K, and X. And for For AMD CPUs, their overclocking labels are FX, and Black Edition, and X.
Although , special processors such as the Pentium G3258 and any Ryzen with the exception of the PRO variants, are overclockable; . But keep in mind that you must have to be running the CPU on a motherboard that supports overclocking. The motherboards that tend to support overclocking features, comes with a chipset that also supports overclocking, which is required for the CPU to be overclockable. However, this only applies to the newer motherboards, not the older motherboards as they tend to vary from being overclockable to not overclockable. For Intel, the overclockable chipsets' name starts with an X or a Z. The other chipsets that were not mentioned, are not overclockable (B, C, H, and Q). For AMD, the overclockable chipsets' name starts with an X or a B. The other chipsets that were not mentioned, are not overclockable (A).
For older desktop motherboards with older chipsets, there might be overclocking available in the form of a front-side bus setting. Use that setting with caution however, as the front-side bus clock speed gets raised, so does the rest of the other components on the motherboard (which causes instability, data corruption, etc). Unless the motherboard has a PCI/AGP lock, it is advised not to use the front-side bus setting to overclock the CPU. In further depth, there is safer setting that can be used to overclock without suffering from instability. Called the 'CPU BSEL Select' or similar, it was intended to manually select the proper front-side bus clock speed of the CPU. Though, by this, it allows us to exploit that feature and use it to overclock while staying within the factory specifications of the motherboard. This does not affect the rest of the other components on the motherboard, as the front-side bus is not overclocked and is only following the rated speeds it can achieve. Therefore, it is safer than the dangerous front-side bus setting. Also, be aware that once the CPU has hit a certain clock speed, it can no longer overclock due to voltage issues. The reasoning behind this is because of how higher clock speeds require more voltage, and these non-overclockable motherboards have a high chance of not having the ability to modify the input voltage to the CPU.
==Recommended Specifications==
===[[Phoenix]]===
;Minimum:
*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) or later
*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6) (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.13 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT 620 @ 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 2600+ @ 1.6 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 or ATI Radeon 9550 or Intel GMA 900 or S3 GammaChrome S14 or better
*RAM: 1 GB or more
;Recommended:
*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.18.124 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.9 GHz or better
*RAM: 2 GB or more
===[[Cxbx-Reloaded]]===
;Minimum:
*Windows: 7 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ 3.2 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO or Intel HD Graphics 2500 or better
*RAM: 2 GB or more
;Recommended:
*CPU: Intel Core i7-870 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1 GHz or better
*RAM: 4 GB or more
===[[RPCS3]]===
*Windows: 7 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.18.124 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Xeon X5492 Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ 3.4 2 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 980 955 Black Edition @ 3.7 2 GHzor better*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 or ATI AMD Radeon HD 7470 or better
*RAM: 4 GB or more
;Recommended:
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 4.0 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.4 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @ 3.6 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or ATI AMD Radeon HD 7750 or better
*RAM: 6 GB or more
;Recommended:
*Windows: XP Professional x64 with Service Pack 2 (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39 .4 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8700 @ 3.5 GHz or AMD Phenom II X2 B60 @ 3.5 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO or Intel HD Graphics 2500 or better
*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) or later
*macOS: Mountain Lion (10.8) (32-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39 .4 (32-bit) or later*CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.4C (Northwood-C) @ 3.4 GHz (Northwood) or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Clawhammer) @ 2 GHz or better*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5100 or ATI Radeon X1050 9550 or Intel GMA 3000 or S3 Chrome S25 or better
*RAM: 1 GB or more
;Recommended:
*RAM: 2 GB or more
Enable the dynarec option for speedups.
===[[Cemu]]===
;Minimum:
*Windows: 7 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Xeon X7460 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD Opteron 4180 @ 2.6 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or AMD Radeon HD 7730 or better
*RAM: 4 GB or more
;Recommended:
*CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K @ 3.6 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X @ 3.6 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti or AMD Radeon R7 360 or better
*RAM: 8 GB or more
===[[Dolphin]]===
*macOS: Yosemite (10.10) (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 4.4.6 (64-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ 3.2 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 7770 or better
*RAM: 2 GB or more
See the [[Dolphin]] page for further recommendations, such as controller setups.
===[[Mupen64Plus]]===
;Minimum:
*Windows: XP with Service Pack 3 (32-bit) <small>(needs msvcp120.dll and msvcr120.dll in the program's directory to run, also applies for XP Pro x64/64-bit)</small> or later
*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6) (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT 570 @ 3.8 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Orleans) @ 2.4 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra or ATI Radeon 7200 or 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 or better
*RAM: 1 GB or more
;Recommended:
*Windows: Vista with Service Pack 2 (32-bit) or later
*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) (64-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39.4 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 5600 @ 2.3 GHz or better
*RAM: 2 GB or more
===[[DeSmuME]]===
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 @ 2 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 270u @ 2 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX100 or ATI Radeon 7000 or Intel Extreme Graphics 2 or 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 or PowerVR Series3 Kyro II or S3 DeltaChrome S4 or Trident XP4 or XGI Volari V3 or Matrox Millennium G200 G400 or better
*RAM: 1 GB or more
;Recommended:
*Windows: Vista with Service Pack 2 (32-bit) or later
*macOS: Snow Leopard (10.6.8) (32-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39 .4 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X2 545 @ 3 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO or Intel HD Graphics 2500 or better
*RAM: 2 GB or more
Enable the dynarec option for speedups.
===[[mGBA]]===
;Minimum:
*Windows: Vista with Service Pack 2 (32-bit) or later
*macOS: Leopard (10.5) (32-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Atom 230 @ 1.6 GHz or AMD Geode NX 1750+ @ 1.4 GHz or VIA C7 1.6 @ 1.6 GHz or Transmeta Efficeon TM8800 @ 1.6 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR or ATI Radeon 7000 or 3dfx Voodoo3 1000 or Intel Extreme Graphics or Matrox Millenium G400 or better
*RAM: 1 GB or more
;Recommended:
*macOS: Lion (10.7) (32-bit) or later
*Linux: Distributions using kernel 2.6.39.4 (32-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0A (Northwood-A) @ 3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton) @ 2.1 GHz
*RAM: 2 GB or more
===[[BGB]]===
*Windows: 98 (16-bit/32-bit hybrid) or later
*CPU: Intel Pentium MMX (P55C) @ 200 MHz or AMD K6 (Little Foot) @ 233 MHz or Cyrix 6x86MX PR366 @ 250 MHz or IDT WinChip 240 (C6) @ 240 MHz or Rise mP6 PR366 @ 250 MHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX100 GeForce 256 SDR or ATI Radeon 7000 or 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 or Intel Extreme Graphics or Matrox Millennium G400 P650 or better
*RAM: 128 MB or more
;Recommended:
*RAM: 2 GB or more
;Recommended:
*Windows: 7 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit) or later*Linux: Distributions using kernel 3.18.124 (3264-bit) or later
*CPU: Intel Core i3-3250T @ 3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1 GHz or better
*GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2350 PRO or Intel HD Graphics 2500 or better
==References==
